Sean Michael Kerner

Red Hat kicked off its analyst day in New York Thursday with an announcement of plans to acquire parts of the Netscape Enterprise solution from AOL. The

Microsoft urged customers to upgrade to more secure platforms as support ended for NT Server 4.0. Learn more now.

Linux vendors Red Hat, Novell/SUSE, Mandrakesoft, Debian, and Gentoo issued advisories and patches this week for a number of vulnerabilities. Red Hat,

Novell officially announced the next version of its mainstream Linux offering today, SUSE Linux Professional 9.3. Like Ragu, it's all in there: Centrino

New data released this week from research firm Evans Data indicates non-commercial Linux distribution use has passed the inflection point and is now more

IBM and Red Hat have Sun Microsystems' Solaris in their sites with an aggressive new "Solaris to Linux Migration Factory" program. Big Blue and Red Hat

Almost a year after IBM  donated its Java-based database server to the Apache Software Foundation, the project has now come out of the incubator, become a

Apple users have one less reason to feel smug about security in comparison to their Windows peers today. Apple releases massive patch addressing more than

There can hardly an IT administrator today that has not used SSH to log into a remote server. The originator of the ubiquitous SSH protocol rolls out new

Sun is taking a new approach to rolling out its trusted version of Solaris. Rather than a completely separate version of Solaris, it's now in "early

The importance of Linux in the world of supercomputers is difficult to understate. Linux is the installed operating system on 72 percent of the

Sun is improving its Solaris operating system with new support for the open source PostgreSQL database, Xen virtualization, GRUB boot loader, and the